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An overview of the interviews can be found on the Atlasvanooit
The interviews can be found on Youtube with the search terms “Atlas van Ooit interviews vuurwerkramp”
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the commemoration of this disaster, a series of interviews with people involved were made between 2018 and 2019. Marco Krijnsen, public historian and journalist portrayed 23 people who were affected by this disaster. The interviews give a good picture of the experiences during and after the disaster of both residents of the neighborhood and various other people involved including a journalist, a police officer, a firefighter, the widow of a firefighter who died, a factory manager, a head of social affairs and an alderman.
Some individuals spoke for 15 minutes and others for an entire hour. One thing is certain: those involved take center stage and get to tell their stories.
The collection has not yet been digitized and therefore cannot be viewed directly at Sound & Vision. Digitization can, however, be requested from Sound & Vision via: zakelijk@beeldengeluid.nl
Title: Het water en de herinnering. De Zeeuwse watersnoodramp 1953-1993
Author: Selma Leydesdorff
Publisher: Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1993
ISBN: 9789029027717
The interviews relating to the 1953 flood were conducted as part of an oral history project by several groups of (180) students from the Documentation Centre for Contemporary History (DNG) of the University of Amsterdam in 1990-92. Many of the interviewees were direct victims of the disaster, others were related to it as relief workers, administrators etcetera.
The entire project was led by Dr Selma Leydesdorff. She used the interviews in her book Het water en de herinnering. De Zeeuwse watersnoodramp 1953-1993 (with pictures by Ed van Wijk), Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1993.
After the 50th anniversary of the flood disaster, which left so many scars on Texel, in Zeeland, North Brabant and South Holland, renewed attention is being paid to the stories of the eyewitnesses.
Former director of the Watersnoodmuseum, Jaap Schoof – himself an eyewitness – has set up the project ‘Oral History, 1953 the story’. Schoof speaks with victims, rescuers and relief workers. Although the project officially ended in November 2013, stories are still coming in. The archive now contains more than 300 interviews and 500 written memories.
The aim of the project: to unlock, collect and permanently preserve the written, audio and/or video recordings of (un)known stories from or about the flood disaster.
See in particular the oral history project in the 1990s by Selma Leydesdorff
The stories of and after February 1, 1953, by victims, relief workers and others directly involved in the flood disaster that left so many scars on Texel, in Zeeland, North Brabant and South Holland.
